The Hill reports that eight weeks after the death of George Floyd, Minnesota’s Legislature passed a round of police accountability measures early Tuesday which includes a ban on chokeholds. In addition to the chokehold ban, this new legislation also improves data collection on deadly force encounters by creating a new investigative unit. A panel will… Read more »
Texas Southern University has offered George Floyd’s daughter Gianna a full scholarship if she chooses to attend the university. Her father George was a citizen of the Third Ward and even graduated from Jack Yates High School which is close by the university. Gerald Smith, the chairman of the TSU Foundation said, “The TSU Foundation… Read more »
A demonstration to protest the death of George Floyd on Wednesday got out of hand as a number of participants looted a Minneapolis Target store. Video taken by TV news crews shows groups of protestors running into and out of the retail store, carrying away such items as big screen TVs, furniture, clothing and groceries…. Read more »
